Олімпіада з англійської мови. IІ-III курс (11 клас) 2024-2025 н.р.

LISTENING

Task 1 . Listen to the description of Ronald Reagan. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)? Choose T or F next to the numbers 1 – 7. Listen twice.

Ronald Reagan worked as a sociologist and a radio broadcaster in Iowa.

Ronald Reagan worked as an actor in Los Angeles

Ronald Reagan was a good public speaker

Ronald Reagan was in office for two presidential terms

Ronald Reagan was one of the most popular actors of the past 50 years

Ronald Reagan could show that he was very attentive to the speaker

People hoped for great economic growth under Ronald Reagan’s presidency

READING

Read the text and do the task below.

How the Internet is changing lives forever

1. These days with inexpensive air travel, mobile phones, email and the Internet, we see the world as a smaller place than it appeared to our predecessors. Of these innovations The Internet appears to be the one with the most potential for global influence, and which will change lives the most.

2. For example, up until recently friendships developed over a lifetime but that has now changed. People often made friends locally at school and continued those friendships into adulthood, but many young people today find the majority of their friendships over the Internet. This is not restricted to teenagers. Paula Sen, who has just turned 30, says: “I ‘ve met most of my best friends over the Internet, through common interest forums. I couldn’t live without the Internet. It’s my lifeline.”

3. The Internet has also greatly influenced how people buy and sell goods. International Internet shopping is now common, with people buying all sorts of goods from sites such as Amazon, the most successful online retail site. The international auction site eBay allows millions of participants to buy from and sell to strangers, setting their own price. But beware – there are as many unscrupulous sales people online as on the high street.

4. One of the Internet’s greatest success stories is Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, which is compiled and updated by its users. It carries far more content than any other encyclopedia and is a great starting point for research, but remember to double - check important facts as it does contain errors. If you don’t have time to check your facts, consider purchasing a reliable online encyclopedia such as the Encyclopedia Britannica. The other major information resource on the Internet is Google, a search engine which finds and ranks web pages according to the number of links made to them.

5. Probably the biggest impact that the Internet has had is the way in which it has influenced social networking. The most frequently ‘googled’ word in the world recently was Bedo – the social networking site – followed by MySpace. People can meet new friends through sites like these, they can review all acquaintances through site like Friends Reunited and they can also play games with each other in virtual worlds such as Second Life. This Internet-based, three-dimensional virtual world is ‘inhabited’ by more that 6.6 million residents from around the world and global companies such as adidas and Toyota even have outlets there.

6. It’s now much easier to share experience with others too. Sites such as YouTube allow people to upload and share videos, with unlikely clips becoming huge hits and a number of figures becoming Internet phenomena. Many people remember watching ‘sabre boy’ wielding an imaginary light-sabre, and laughing out loud at his antics.

7. Much of the power of the Internet lies in the fact that people are developing new ways to be creative and innovative, combining ideas and skills without an organization or hierarchy. No one is in overall control. Collective creativity and collaboration are the key ideas. But even more powerful than this is its power to solve crimes, help change the world through giving to charities on sites like justgiving.com or find missing individuals: one website for a missing child was visited by over 40 million people within days of its being set up.

Find the best headline for each paragraph (1-7) There are some extra headlines.

A. A new way of building up bonds

B. Relations that do not last long

C. Space for interaction

D. A platform to exchange knowledge and skills

E. The development, which can have the greatest impact

F. The power to introduce positive change

G. Making new nets to communicate

H. Business on the Internet can be unreliable

I. Information source that can be questionable

J. Creative power without overall control

WRITING

Choose one of the three suggested topics and comment on it.

1. Nowadays young people often choose their future profession without being cut out for it but just for the sake of expected financial benefit.

2. It is absolutely necessary that Ukraine reshape itself following the countries of the European Union.

3. It is unfair that Ukrainian higher education diplomas are not recognized in many developed countries.